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Should High Heels Be Taxed?

Posted in Life, Microeconomics, Taxes, tagged , , on April 5, 2012 | 10 Comments »

Among my idiosyncracies are two footwear anti-fetishes: I hate flip flops and high heels. I have never mastered the dark art of walking in flip flops, and I have always been troubled when women teeter at the edge of falling because of shoes designed for fashion (allegedly) rather than function. Nonetheless, I enjoyed Thursday’s Wall Street Journal piece about [...]

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Long Spots, Short Stripes

Posted in Life, Microeconomics, tagged , , on March 31, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Ran into Felix Salmon out at the Kauffman Foundation’s economic bloggers confab. His latest Felix TV breaks the contemporary art market down into two simple metrics: $ per spot and $ per stripe. Feliz says buy spots. But a word of warning: Damien Hirst seems hellbent on flooding the dot market. Somehow I think the price [...]

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Santa, Could You Please Give Me the Impossible?

Posted in Budget, tagged on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

My lovely wife sends me a Christmas card: P.S. More cards here from smileecards.

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The Twelve Days of Christmas for Our Weak Economy

Posted in Economy, tagged on December 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

With apologies to Christmas carol purists, my latest Christian Science Monitor column offers up the twelve days of Christmas for our weak economy. I am no Jeff Foxworthy, so please forgive the poetic license and imprecise scanning. Oh, and kudos to my editor for letting me keep in the reference to Festivus. As the folks [...]

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The Behavioral Economics of Leftover Pizza

Posted in Life, Microeconomics, tagged , , on November 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Jared would be proud of me. Whenever I grab lunch to eat in my office, I head over to Subway for a six-inch Veggie Delite with provolone. Just 280 calories. Yum. Depending on my mood and workload, I usually gobble down my Subway lunch between 12:15 and 1:00pm. On Monday, though, I started eating at [...]

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The Invisible Hand is Made of Delicious Invisible Meat

Posted in Life, Microeconomics, tagged , , , on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The incomparable xkcd on incentives, morals, and TripAdvisor:   Here’s another favorite.

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Debt Limit: Routine or the End of the World?

Posted in Budget, Politics, tagged , , , on July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Well, it certainly isn’t routine this time. Life was much simpler on the West Wing: This is a repost from May.

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Raise the Debt Ceiling Rap

Posted in Budget, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Today’s humor break: Remy does the Debt Ceiling Rap (with some asides about monetary policy): Best line: “I got a monetary plan, and it involves a lot of toner.”

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Avoiding Road Kill in Ghana

Posted in International, Nature, tagged , , , , on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In Washington’s economic circles, the only animals we usually have to worry about are hawks and doves. (And the occasional raccoon or vole.) If you’re doing development research in Ghana, however, things are more complicated.  Zipping from village to village on her motorcycle, my friend Liz has become intimately familiar with the behavior — often stochastic – of different [...]

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Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Posted in Life, Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Centers for Disease Control offers emergency preparedness tips with a sense of humor: So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the [...]

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